Thread 19035305

I think AEW had one good year. May 2019 to May 2020. Cody winning the TNT title is, in my opinion, the exact moment the wheels started falling off the bus. What say you, /pw/?

>>19035305 (OP)
0

>>19035309
Harsh but I'll accept it.

>>19035305 (OP)
The problem is AEW will only be remembered for the brawl out and Punk firing.Continuing to push the Bucks and Page just remind everyone about Tony's fuck ups.

>>19035309
Agreed.
What it had early on was excitement, with the prospect that it might become good. Which is why it had so much energy behind it.
With every year of failing to live up to that prospect, the energy died down and the viewership started tuning out.

You only dislike AEW because you're brainwashed by the fed.

More than WWE has had in the last 20 years.

>>19035305 (OP)
i don't think it had any good full years, however i think it has had lots of good 2-3 month stretches

They had exactly 24 minutes and 50 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-9y3kW9Ayg

>>19035429
WWE is not without its problems, but you can't have every match be an overbooked competitive 100 false finishes banger. People will burn out fast seeing it all the time.

>>19035429
I've never been a WWE guy, was a WCW and ECW guy in the 90s, got into Japan and the indies in the 2000s. AEW, given their resources, is the worst promotion of all time.

>>19035632
I was WCW back in the 90s, stuck on with WWE for a bit in the 2000s till dropping pro-wrestling for 15 years or so. Came back watching NJPW around 2018/2019.
AEW fucking sucks.

>>19035638
What do you watch now?

>>19035674
Working through the good helmut 90s sets, 80s New Japan, 80s AJW.

>>19035674
I'm the person you responded to.
Honestly, I don't watch anything regularly. I prefer Japanese wrestling over American because I prefer action over talking. Here and there I'll watch Stardom because I find it the most watchable promotion at the moment (it's not that women's wrestling is better, just that I find it an easier watch if that makes sense). I keep tabs on New Japan and NOAH... I like AJPW in bursts but no English at all makes it hard to watch long term.

>yet ANOTHER AEW derangement thread
You are so boring

>>19035429
I dislike AEW because it fucking sucks, actually.

>>19035959
you didn't answer the question

>>19035305 (OP)
It was good every year until Phil Brooks came and hasn't been good since

>>19035959
>seething this hard
You are so mad

>>19036029
You would be too if you spent 4 hours every week trying to convince yourself that AEW is acktually good

>>19036003
Based and correct.

>>19035305 (OP)
I kept watching through 2021 hoping that it would improve but in hindsight I agree with this assessment.

>Had to bump his own thread again because nobody will reply to him
KWAB

>>19037902
>/pw/ doesn't have poster IDs but I know exactly which anons are OP using my powers of schizophrenia!

>>19035305 (OP)
7 years and counting, Jaxton.

>>19035305 (OP)
only good thing aew ever did was the week when mjf gave his life story and then when he made punk bleed. the only good week in company history kek

I liked every year except whenever MJF/Adam Cole was happening. Was that 2023, that was their worst year creatively.

>>19035305 (OP)
AEW peaked in 2022

2019-2022 is peak AEW.
2022-2024 was grim.
2025 has been a lot better than that dark period, but not quite the heights of the first 3 years.

Great, another Hogwheels meltdown thread.
*yawn*

Great, another Jaxton aew derangement thread.
*yawn*

>>19038199
Rovert has been melting down since 300K or whatever that shitty rating was.

>>19035305 (OP)
There was a lot of buzz around AEW for a while, enough that someone who was lapsed for a time like me started hearing things. They got Sting, they got Punk, they got Jericho, they're making a video game, they're a bit more violent and vulgar than WWE at the time. Now all of that sounded super appealing on paper. I never watched Dynamite but I remember thinking I'd give the game a try at some point and hopefully check the show out. Then all of the shit started happening CM Punk walked out, game dropped to abysmal reviews, Sting retired. After that happened, it feels like a lot of the mainstream attention the company was getting died. They still had a few feuds every now and again I'd hear about but I'd only hear about them from people whose primary hobby is wrestling.

>>19038219
>no u
You're such a faggot.
No one wants you here.

>>19038285
Stop fucking spamming threads with Karly!

>>19038302
What on god's green earth are you talking about you crippled irish wheelchair-bound oinky fuck?

>>19035305 (OP)
2019-2023. That's it. When Punk left it turned into it's true self that Cody tried getting away from. Indie fucking embarrassing dogshit

How many times a day do you, etard fat fucks think about AEW? 1000? 2000? You probably think about more than the wrestlers and TK do.

>>19038428
Dear lord, what kind of a grown man cries about pro-wrestling.
That's the type of behavior that would get you permanently shoved in a locker when I was growing up and we were kids.

>>19038446
I think about AEW when I see your posts. So yes about 2000 times a day since you have no life kek.

>>19038461
You are a forty-five-year-old virgin, Dylan.

>>19038461
>kek

>>19038446
Only when I come here to work AEWtists into a seethe. How often do you seethe about WWE? Literally every single second of every single day?

>>19038905
I could be the most embarrassing boogeyman lolcow ever to exist and I'd still be less pathetic than you trev

>>19038995
>I could be the most embarrassing boogeyman lolcow ever to exist
I'm glad you finally accepted this

>>19039010
i'm convinced that if his post history was revealed he'd be up there with chris chan

>>19035429
>No selling in matches
>Random tag matches every week
>The "storyline" is one member of a faction attacked another faction on Collision therefore a match
>Too many stables
>Too many titles
>The "main stars" are starting to feel like midcarders
>The only pop shows get is if an ex WWE wrestler might show up
>No progression its just a reset after every single PPV

There's a lot of things wrong with AEW and the in ring and PPV's are its its saving grace but that can only last so long

>>19035305 (OP)
Cody's TNT run was one of the best parts. When he lost it to Darby and Darby just did random matches with le extreme spot it was concerning and turned out to be a sign of things to come when Malakai had a big debut then just did endless multi-mans and Bryan debuted and didn't do much and then I stopped watching everything but Cody stuff then I started watching Hurt Business then they cancelled the MJF storyline and do nothing now.

Currently 6

>>19039447
This thread is about the numbers of years AEW was good, not the number of men you're in a gay polyamorous relationship with

>>19039447
This thread is about the number of years AEW was good, not the number of men you're in a gay polyamorous relationship with

>>19039478
KIRDBLT

Ziggler said on Chris Van Vilet he sees AEW lasting 3 more years

when did ratings started sagging?, i think thats a pretty good indicator

>>19039473
We love AEW here pal

>>19039493
Cable ratings have been in decline for 25 years. That's the reason RAW decided to finally leave cable.

>>19039493
The 3 weeks after Punk left and appeared back in WWE. The ratings started to nose dive

>>19039540
Nope not true Jaxton.

>>19035305 (OP)
When did Tony buy ROH? That's when it noticeably got worse. Then they rebuilt a bit until the Punk drama and had to rebuild again. Then the whole MJF devil face champion run was complete dogshit. 2025 has been mostly ok.

I think the Punk drama massively exposed how much of an unstable dramafest the backstage culture of the promotion was, and not the harmonious infallible little upstart it liked to present itself as

>>19039493
They started nosediving once Punk left

They didn't have a single one, motherfucker.

>>19039871
Tony Khan has destroyed the free speech of indy wrestlers. Promoters are now scared to book wrestlers who have badmouthed AEW/Khan because it may cost that promotion both present AND future opportunities to book AEW talent. He continues to block/pull talent from shows, not just from CMLL/Stardom/NJPW but completely random promotions that have booked AEW talent and have Tony-hating talent on the same show

>"They can work the indies if they sign with AEW"
this single phrase has made 99% of indy wrestlers without a direct path to WWE feel compelled to never say a bad word about AEW's Cult Leader. You can say anything you want about CM Punk, Cody, Eddie Kingston, Triple H, Brock Lesnar, IYO Sky, literally anyone except Tony Khan and you can still be booked on the indies

And then AEW fans wonder why indy wrestlers keep signing with WWE, even for less money.

>>19039972
Keep waiting for gutsy to miss

>>19039972
>>19039960
>>19039871
>>19039983
No Jaxton we still arent watching WWE.
Yes Jaxton AEW is indeed a massive success.

>>19039473
He had nothing for this

>>19035305 (OP)
Zero

first big ppv i unironically enjoyed before it turned into a weekly show
first week was already showing signs that it was trying to be wwe but with indy guys instead of doing their own shit

>>19038232
Grim

>>19038232
>>19041353
What's really grim is caring more about BULLvert more this day (and everyday) than he has ever cared about you once.

>>19035309
/thread
its over

>>19035309
Yup

>>19035305 (OP)
>We lost 2010s new Japan for this shit

>>19040027
hey janny, can we make jaxton the next autoban no no word? at least making fun of a fat terminally online cripple who is actually a real person in the IWC community was funny

>>19039871
And yet 99% of that drama fucked off when he did

>>19039487
Got a video for that?

>>19042502
Jaxton posting pops me. The hogwheels stuff is just creepy.

>>19039789
2022, same year Punk got the heavyweight title and Cody left
Coincidentally it was also the same year Vince was initially ousted as a booker

>>19042580
Porkroller actually exists though and is a retarded spastic fucking faggot

>>19035305 (OP)
They've had 0 profitable years, that's about all that matters. Anyone can blow their life savings or their trust fund running a business that doesn't make a dime.

>>19038254
Currently, they don't have one big star that you MUST see every week. They have some good wrestlers, but no one that has any charisma.

>>19043807
They were trying to do that with MJF but they kept humiliating him on TV week after week and every time he's gotten momentum again Tony finds a way to fumble it

Instead Tony's insistent on making Adam Page into The Guy for AEW but that's well...

>jaxton
qrd?

>>19043700
but it's not funny and makes the person posting it look more deranged. jaxton looks so goofy there's no need for ai edits or shitty Photoshops. just post his twitter pfp and it gets an immediate pop from me.

>>19035305 (OP)
It went to shit when: 1, Cody went to WWE and 2, Punk came to AEW. Early AEW and the Codyverse was kino.

>>19044281
>ai edits or shitty Photoshops
It's proof your boogeyman Jaxton doesn't post here because he's not complaining about it 24/7 and mass reporting it all.

>>19044343
who cares if jaxton posts here or not? his picture is funny

>>19044381
>>19044281
>>19042580
That part

>>19044381
>some spic wearing a cm punk shirt is funnier than a fat cripple who we know posts here because he has been terrorizing wrestling forums for decades
You don't fool anyone, trev. No one but you would care about that dimeless jaxton shit

>>19044704
The wheels stuff was funny until you ottted yourself as a shoot weirdo

>>19044704
You need to stop being so hard on yourself Jaxton. Yeah youre goofy looking but not obese. Karly is ugly as fuck tbough ngl.

>>19044704
He had nothing for this except more seethe and samefagging

I think AEW's height was that window where Danielson joined, you had that great match between Kenny and Danielson, then CM Punk came in and really tore the roof off. It really felt like a good balance between ex-WWE guys that people know and love and these ex-NJPW guys who could run with them. Then the backstage shit happened and Tony just never recovered from that.

>>19035309
fpbp

>>19035305 (OP)
You tell me I don't watch tranny slop

>>19035305 (OP)
It was okay while they were just doing their own thing. It really started going downhill once they beat NXT. Tony proceeded to hire every shitter that was on NXT aside from Karen KWAB and ended up pushing them over the younger and lesser known people they had. When he got the idea that they should directly compete against WWE that was the end. I personally jumped shit when he signed Rusev.

>>19035305 (OP)
They never even reached the consistency of 2005-2009 TNA for more than a few months in a row.

>>19040250
This

>>19035305 (OP)
I only liked it in 2020 and that may have been because nothing else was on.

>>19035305 (OP)
Best period was March-September 2021, when Christian was top face. All downhill ever since.

>>19047882
christian sucks peep faggot

Wrestling is not very good there

>>19049507
is it good anywhere these days?

>>19048659
No legs? No 350k?

>>19050407
Based

>>19035309
This

>>19035305 (OP)
none

>>19035305 (OP)
>I think AEW had one good year. May 2019 to May 2020. Cody winning the TNT title is, in my opinion, the exact moment the wheels started falling off the bus. What say you, /pw/?

>>19050407
He hated this one

>>19035305 (OP)
The last good thing is when Jericho came out with a goat

>>19035309
FPBP

>>19035309
Was thinking the exact same thing

>>19054871
Based

>>19054871
that part

How many years have they been around? That is how many bad years they have had.

>>19035309
He hid this thread after this one

>>19035403
Don't forget sparklers

Have they had a good year? Have they had a good month?

>>19035305 (OP)
AEW has never been good

>>19035305 (OP)
When did Punk come in? That's around when it started to decline quickly imo

>>19060991
Really? You haven't stopped crying about him leaving tubby

2022 was the only good year AEW had. It has been all downhill since probably Double or Nothing 2023. After that Tony decided doing a exhibition PPV with Japs was a good idea, created a shit ton of titles + ROH integration on AEW programming. You know what's kind of funny...about the same time this guy got in Tony's ear.

AEW has always been tranny slop

>>19063195
He milked Tony Khan dry to do nothing

>>19035309
I mean folks....

>>19060053
There was buzz from spring through fall of '21.

>>19065574
Nah

>>19035309
True

>>19035305 (OP)
Pretty sure it's always been slop

>>19035309
fact